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Elections in Ukraine gives information on election and election results in Ukraine.
Ukraine elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. The Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine) has 450 members, elected for a 5-year term (before a constitutional reform of 2004 this term was equal to 4 years). Before 1998 all the members of the Parliament were elected by single-seat constituencies. In 1998 and in 2002 half of the members were elected by proportional representation and the other half by single-seat constituencies. Since the 2006 parliamentary election, all 450 members of the Verkhovna Rada are elected by proportional representation.
Ukraine has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
Representative bodies and heads of local government throughout Ukraine are elected simultaneously with the Verkhovna Rada.
A snap poll must have a voter turnout higher then 50%.[1]
Since 1994 the average voter turnout for the Verkhovna Rada elections has been 68.13%[2][3] and for presidential elections 73%.[2][4]
Early May 2009 the "The Committee of Voters of Ukraine" stated they believe that the use of the state’s administrative resources by political forces for their own national and local election campaigns is no longer a decisive factor in the outcome of Ukrainian elections.[5]
2010 presidential election
2007 parliamentary election
| Parties and blocs | Votes | % | Swing % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party of Regions (Партія регіонів) | 8,013,895 | 34.37 | 175 | ||
Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (Блок Юлії Тимошенко)
|
7,162,193 | 30.71 | 156 | ||
| Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (Блок Наша Україна–Народна Самооборона) | 3,301,282 | 14.15 | 72 | ||
| Communist Party of Ukraine (Комуністична партія України) | 1,257,291 | 5.39 | 27 | ||
| Lytvyn Bloc (Блок Литвина) | 924,538 | 3.96 | 20 | ||
| Socialist Party of Ukraine (Соціалістична партія України) | 668,234 | 2.86 | |||
| Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (Прогресивна соціалістична партія України) | 309,008 | 1.32 | |||
| 178,660 | 0.76 | ||||
| Party of Greens of Ukraine (Партія Зелених України) | 94,505 | 0.40 | |||
| Electoral Bloc of Liudmyla Suprun – Ukrainian Regional Asset (Виборчий блок Людмили Супрун — Український регіональний актив) | 80,944 | 0.34 | |||
| Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed) (Комуністична партія України (оновлена)) | 68,602 | 0.29 | |||
| Party of Free Democrats (Партія Вільних Демократів) | 50,852 | 0.21 | |||
| Bloc of the Party of Pensioners of Ukraine (Блок партії пенсіонерів України) | 34,845 | 0.14 | |||
| Party of National Economic Development of Ukraine (Партія національно-економічного розвитку України) | 33,489 | 0.14 | |||
Ukrainian People's Bloc (Український Народний Блок)
|
28,414 | 0.12 | |||
|
25,675 | 0.11 | |||
Christian Bloc (Християнський блок)
|
24,597 | 0.10 | |||
| Electoral Bloc of Political Parties "KUCHMA" (Виборчий блок політичних партій «КУЧМА») | 23,676 | 0.10 | |||
Bloc "All-Ukrainian Community" (Блок "Всеукраїнська громада")
|
12,327 | 0.05 | |||
| All-Ukrainian Party of People's Trust (Всеукраїнська партія Народної Довіри) | 5,342 | 0.02 | |||
| Against all | 637,185 | 2.73 | |||
| Invalid ballot papers | 379,658 | 1.62 | |||
| Total (turnout 62.02%) | 23,315,257 | 100 | 450 | ||
| Source: Central Election Commission of Ukraine (English) More detailed information: Центральної виборчої комісії України (Ukrainian) | |||||
Electoral Maps
Election results compared with the previous Ukrainian parliamentary election
In 2006, 27% of the registered vote represented support for minor parties that received less than the 3% statutory representation threshold. In 2007 the number of voters that supported minor parties that received less than the 3% statutory threshold (Including the Socialist Party of Ukraine the support of 2.86%) was only 7%.
The 20% difference shows a consolidation of voter's support towards major political parties. This fact needs to be taken into consideration when making any assessment as to the positive swing recorded for Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko, Party of Regions, The Communist Party of Ukraine and Bloc Lytvyn. The Our Ukraine bloc merged with the new party "
Further review of the regional vote shows a consolidation of the vote by Yulia Tymoshenko in regions in which her party already maintained strong support. Apart from the Socialist Party of Ukraine and a marginal gain by Our Ukraine all major political parties recorded an increase in the overall percentage the voter support when comparing the 2006 to 2007 results.
The other fact that needs to also be considered is that in 2006 the participation rate was 67% and in 2007 the participation rate dropped down to 62%.
Charts 2007
Charts 2006
| Region | PR | BYuT | OU / UO-PSD | SPU | CPU | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | |
| Ukraine | 32.1 | 34.4 | 22.3 | 30.7 | 14.0 | 14.2 | 5.7 | 2.9 | 3.7 | 5.4 |
| Crimea | 58.0 | 61.0 | 6.5 | 6.9 | 7.6 | 8.2 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 4.5 | 7.6 |
| Vinnytsia Oblast | 8.2 | 12.6 | 33.3 | 50.0 | 20.0 | 18.6 | 14.7 | 2.5 | 3.4 | 5.0 |
| Volyn Oblast | 4.5 | 6.7 | 43.9 | 57.6 | 20.7 | 20.0 | 4.1 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.7 |
| Dnepropetrovsk Oblast | 45.0 | 48.2 | 15.0 | 20.9 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 3.8 | 1.4 | 5.7 | 7.6 |
| Donetsk Oblast | 73.6 | 72.1 | 2.5 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 3.7 | 8.0 | 3.1 | 6.0 |
| Zhytomyr Oblast | 18.0 | 22.4 | 24.9 | 37.0 | 17.5 | 15.1 | 8.9 | 2.5 | 5.4 | 5.8 |
| Zakarpattia Oblast | 18.7 | 19.8 | 20.3 | 28.9 | 25.8 | 31.1 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| Zaporizhia Oblast | 51.2 | 55.5 | 10.9 | 14.7 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 5.3 | 8.3 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | 1.9 | 3.0 | 30.4 | 50.7 | 45.1 | 36.8 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
| Kiev Oblast | 9.9 | 13.0 | 44.5 | 53.4 | 11.6 | 15.1 | 10.2 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.9 |
| Kirovohrad Oblast | 20.1 | 27.0 | 30.1 | 37.6 | 8.7 | 11.7 | 9.7 | 2.8 | 6.1 | 6.4 |
| Luhansk Oblast | 74.3 | 73.5 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 4.4 | 8.4 |
| Lviv Oblast | 3.0 | 4.2 | 33.0 | 50.4 | 38.0 | 36.0 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.0 |
| Mykolaiv Oblast | 50.3 | 54.4 | 11.9 | 16.6 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 4.3 | 1.9 | 5.3 | 7.2 |
| Odessa Oblast | 47.5 | 52.2 | 9.9 | 13.7 | 6.4 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 7.2 | 3.2 | 6.2 |
| Poltava Oblast | 20.4 | 24.8 | 26.8 | 37.9 | 13.2 | 14.5 | 12.7 | 3.8 | 5.4 | 6.5 |
| Rivne Oblast | 7.2 | 10.4 | 31.3 | 51.0 | 25.5 | 20.8 | 6.5 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 2.4 |
| Sumy Oblast | 10.9 | 15.7 | 33.3 | 44.5 | 19.4 | 20.7 | 10.6 | 2.0 | 5.4 | 5.8 |
| Ternopil Oblast | 2.0 | 3.0 | 34.5 | 51.6 | 34.2 | 35.2 | 3.7 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Kharkiv Oblast | 51.7 | 49.6 | 12.7 | 16.4 | 5.9 | 8.1 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 4.6 | 8.3 |
| Kherson Oblast | 39.1 | 43.2 | 17.4 | 23.0 | 9.8 | 9.0 | 4.8 | 2.5 | 6.8 | 9.1 |
| Khmelnytskyi Oblast | 10.0 | 14.1 | 35.6 | 48.2 | 18.3 | 18.4 | 9.2 | 1.7 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
| Cherkasy Oblast | 10.7 | 15.5 | 38.3 | 47.0 | 12.2 | 15.3 | 13.4 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.9 |
| Chernihiv Oblast | 15.6 | 20.7 | 33.9 | 41.9 | 10.3 | 14.9 | 12.9 | 2.9 | 5.5 | 6.7 |
| Chernivtsi Oblast | 12.7 | 16.8 | 30.3 | 46.2 | 27.0 | 20.3 | 4.5 | 3.8 | 1.7 | 2.3 |
| Kiev | 11.8 | 15.0 | 39.2 | 46.2 | 15.8 | 15.8 | 5.5 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 4.6 |
| Sevastopol | 64.3 | 64.5 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 4.8 | 10.3 |
| Source: Central Election Commission of Ukraine (Ukrainian) | ||||||||||
| Major cities | PR | BYuT | OU / UO-PSD | SPU | CPU | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | |
| Ukraine | 32.1 | 34.4 | 22.3 | 30.7 | 14.0 | 14.2 | 5.7 | 2.9 | 3.7 | 5.4 |
| Vinnytsia | 10.2 | 13.5 | 40.5 | 54.2 | 17.2 | 14.3 | 8.3 | 2.0 | 3.2 | 4.7 |
| Dnipropetrovsk | 41.1 | 43.7 | 16.3 | 22.8 | 6.2 | 6.8 | 3.4 | 1.6 | 4.2 | 7.2 |
| Donetsk | 72.6 | 76.0 | 2.7 | 4.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 6.8 |
| Zhytomyr | 21.2 | 24.5 | 31.2 | 40.0 | 12.9 | 11.5 | 6.1 | 2.1 | 5.1 | 5.8 |
| Zaporizhia | 44.2 | 50.6 | 14.6 | 19.1 | 6.6 | 5.5 | 2.5 | 1.4 | 5.0 | 8.6 |
| Kirovohrad | 18.9 | 26.8 | 39.6 | 42.2 | 7.5 | 8.9 | 5.2 | 2.2 | 5.0 | 5.8 |
| Kryvyi Rih | 47.3 | 48.8 | 14.2 | 19.9 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 8.3 | 9.2 |
| Luhansk | 70.5 | 67.8 | 5.5 | 7.1 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 8.7 |
| L'viv | 6.5 | 8.4 | 27.7 | 43.6 | 34.4 | 34.1 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Makiivka | 80.6 | 82.6 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 4.8 |
| Mariupol | 56.4 | 42.6 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 18.4 | 42.4 | 3.5 | 4.1 |
| Mykolaiv | 55.1 | 59.4 | 10.2 | 13.8 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 3.5 | 6.8 |
| Odessa | 44.2 | 52.7 | 13.0 | 15.5 | 6.9 | 6.3 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 2.5 | 7.2 |
| Poltava | 25.6 | 26.8 | 33.1 | 41.1 | 11.4 | 10.5 | 4.9 | 1.9 | 4.4 | 6.3 |
| Rivne | 10.1 | 12.5 | 32.2 | 48.2 | 19.8 | 20.6 | 8.0 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 3.4 |
| Simferopol | 56.0 | 59.0 | 6.5 | 6.9 | 5.2 | 5.8 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 5.2 | 9.2 |
| Sumy | 6.9 | 10.8 | 46.7 | 55.8 | 20.9 | 18.1 | 4.1 | 1.2 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
| Kharkov | 49.5 | 45.7 | 14.7 | 18.9 | 6.9 | 8.1 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 3.8 | 8.6 |
| Chernihiv | 23.5 | 28.5 | 31.9 | 36.1 | 7.5 | 10.1 | 8.0 | 2.8 | 7.5 | 7.0 |
| Chernivtsi | 15.6 | 19.8 | 34.9 | 45.8 | 18.7 | 16.8 | 3.7 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 3.6 |
| Source: Central Election Commission of Ukraine (Ukrainian) | ||||||||||
2006 parliamentary election
| Parties and blocs (parties and blocs with at least 0.3% of the votes nationwide) |
Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party of Regions (Партія регіонів) | 8,148,745 | 32.14 | 186 | |
Bloc Yuliya Tymoshenko (Блок Юлії Тимошенко)
|
5,652,876 | 22.29 | 129 | |
Bloc Our Ukraine (Блок Наша Україна)
|
3,539,140 | 13.95 | 81 | |
| Socialist Party of Ukraine (Соціалістична партія України) | 1,444,224 | 5.69 | 33 | |
| Communist Party of Ukraine (Комуністична партія України) | 929,591 | 3.66 | 21 | |
People's Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko (Блок Наталії Вітренко Народна Опозиція)
|
743,704 | 2.93 | 0 | |
Lytvyn's People's Bloc (Народний блок Литвина )
|
619,905 | 2.44 | 0 | |
Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch (Український Народний Блок Костенка і Плюща)
|
476,155 | 1.87 | 0 | |
| Viche (Віче) | 441,912 | 1.74 | 0 | |
"Civil Political Bloc Pora-Reforms and Order Party" (Блок Пора-Партія Реформи і Порядок)
|
373,478 | 1.47 | 0 | |
Opposition Bloc "Ne Tak" (Опозиційний Блок "Не Так")
|
257,106 | 1.01 | 0 | |
| Party "Renaissance" (Партія "Відродження") | 245,188 | 0.96 | 0 | |
| Bloc of Yuriy Karamazin (Блок ЮРІЯ КАРМАЗІНА) | 165,881 | 0.65 | 0 | |
| Party of Greens of Ukraine (Партія Зелених України) | 137,858 | 0.54 | 0 | |
| National Democratic Party of Ukraine (Блок НДП) | 126,586 | 0.49 | 0 | |
| Party of Environmental Protection "EKO+25%" (Політична партія "Партія екологічного порятунку "ЕКО+25%") | 120,238 | 0.47 | 0 | |
| Ukrainian party "Green Planet" (Українська партія "Зелена планета") | 96,734 | 0.38 | 0 | |
| 91,321 | 0.36 | 0 | ||
| Peasant Party of Ukraine (Селянська партія України) | 79,160 | 0.31 | 0 | |
| Lazarenko Bloc ("Блок Лазаренкo") | 76,950 | 0.30 | 0 | |
| Others remaining (below 0.30%) | 645,383 | 2.58 | 0 | |
| Against all | 449,650 | 1.77 | - | |
| Invalid ballot papers | 490,595 | 1.93 | - | |
| Total | 25,352,380 | 100 | 450 | |
| Source: Central Election Commission of Ukraine (English) | ||||
Electoral maps
2004 presidential election
| Candidates — nominating parties | Votes first round 21-Oct-04 | % | Votes run-off 21-Nov-04 | % | Votes rerun 26-Dec-04 | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viktor Yushchenko — Self-nomination | 11,188,675 | 39.90 | 14,222,289 | 46.61 | 15,115,712 | 51.99 |
| Viktor Yanukovych — Party of Regions | 11,008,731 | 39.26 | 15,093,691 | 49.46 | 12,848,528 | 44.20 |
| Oleksandr Moroz — Socialist Party of Ukraine | 1,632,098 | 5.82 | ||||
| Petro Symonenko — Communist Party of Ukraine | 1,396,135 | 4.97 | ||||
| Nataliya Vitrenko — Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine | 429,794 | 1.53 | ||||
| Source: Central Election Commission of Ukraine. On December 3, the Supreme Court of Ukraine declared the results of the November 21, 2004 run-off election to be invalid. The listed re-run was conducted on December 26, 2004 following the peaceful Orange Revolution. | ||||||
2002 parliamentary election
| Parties and alliances | Votes | % | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine (Blok Viktora Juščenka "Naša Ukraïna")
|
23.6 | 112 | |
| Communist Party of Ukraine (Komunistyčna partija Ukraïny) | 20.0 | 66 | |
For United Ukraine (Za jedynu Ukraïnu)
|
11.8 | 102 | |
Electoral Bloc Yuliya Tymoshenko (Vyborčyj Blok Juliï Tymošenko)
|
7.2 | 21 | |
| Socialist Party of Ukraine (Socialistyčna partija Ukraïny) | 6.9 | 24 | |
| United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (Social-demokratyčna partija Ukraïny [ob`jednana]) | 6.3 | 24 | |
Nataliya Vitrenko Bloc (Blok Nataliï Vitrenko)
|
3.2 | - | |
| Women for the Future (Žinky za majbutnje) | 2.1 | - | |
Team of Winter Generation (Komanda ozimoho pokolinnja)
|
2.0 | - | |
| Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed) (Komunistyčna partija Ukraïny - onovlena) | 1.4 | - | |
| Party of Greens of Ukraine (Partija Zelenych Ukraïny) | 1.3 | - | |
| "Apple" (Jabluko) | 1.2 | - | |
Unity (Jednist')
|
1.1 | 4 | |
DPU-DS
|
1.2 | - | |
| Non-partisans | 95 | ||
| Total (turnout 69.4 %) | 450 | ||
| Source: Central Election Commission of Ukraine and Brama | |||
1999 presidential election
1998 parliamentary election
| Parties and blocks (30 parties and blocks participated in the election; 8 of them passed the required 4% barrier) |
Popular vote | Proportional seats | Individual seats | Total seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communist Party of Ukraine | 24.7% | 84 | 37 | 121 |
| People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) | 9.4% | 32 | 14 | 46 |
| Socialist Party of Ukraine/Peasants' Party of Ukraine bloc | 8.6% | 29 | 5* | 34 |
| Party of Greens of Ukraine | 5.3% | 19 | 0 | 19 |
| People's Democratic Party of Ukraine | 5.0% | 17 | 11 | 28 |
| Hromada | 4.7% | 16 | 8 | 24 |
| Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine | 4.0% | 14 | 2 | 16 |
| Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) | 4.0% | 14 | 3 | 17 |
| Other Parties/Not affiliated | - | - | 140 | 140 |
| Total | 225 | 220 | 445 | |
| Source: Central Election Commission of Ukraine * - one deputy was elected from the Socialst party, not the bloc and therefore acconted as not affiliated |
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1994 presidential election
1991 presidential election
Mayoral Election
Kiev
2008
See also
- Electoral calendar
- Electoral system
- 2007 Ukrainian political crisis
- 2008 Ukrainian political crisis
- Elections in the Soviet Union
References
- ^ "Voters Committee Predicting 60% Snap Election Turnout". Ukrainian News Agency. 16 October 2008. http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/156029.html. Retrieved 16 October 2008.
- ^ a b Country View Ukraine International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
- ^ Central Election Commission of Ukraine
- ^ "Swiss President, Luxembourg PM join others in congratulating Yushchenko". Kyiv Post. 31 December 2004. http://www.kyivpost.com/business/22164.
- ^ Committee Of Voters: Use Of State’s Administrative Resources No Longer Decisive Factor In Outcome Of Elections, Ukrainian News Agency (May 8, 2009)
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